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In Stormy Daniels v. Donald J. Trump, Michael Cohen, and the LLC that paid her the $130,000 in hush money, in federal court in Los Angeles, she is asking the court to let her out of the non-disclosure agreement she signed. The actual Non-Disclosure Agreement (“NDA”)...

According to the New York Law Journal, Harvey Weinstein’s accusers will have a difficult time actually recovering payment on their claims[1]. The parent company of Weinstein Co.filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Delaware on March 20, 2018. Before that, Eric...

How Have the Cases in Other States Been Coming Out? What are the Rules? Sofia Vergara, one of the most beautiful women in the world and one of the highest paid women in television[1] was engaged until 2014 to Nick Loeb, the son of a diplomat and philanthropist, great...

Why Can't People Sue...... Anytime the Media Says Something Obviously False About Them? Because the U.S. Supreme Court has placed severe restrictions on libel lawsuits since 1964[1], ruling it would be a restriction of the right to freedom of the press under the...

James Damore is the Google software engineer who wrote the “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber,” Memo, arguing that genetics are the primary reason why software engineering is dominated by men. Stated that way, his position sounds very sexist, but, in fairness to him,...

The First Amendment guarantees us the right to free speech, but unfortunately, it is generally legal to force employees (or anyone else) to sign this away. Businesses do this by making people sign confidentiality clauses to get hired, to keep their jobs, or to get...

According to the lawsuit he filed on Friday, July 7, 2017, Simon & Schuster refused to publish his most recent book, Dangerous, because of allegations that public statements he made condoned pedophilia[1]. What’s a “Morals Clause”? It’s a provision...

The Freelance Isn’t Free law is wonderful and has real teeth, but it would be naïve to think that the Company[1] will roll over and play dead every time a lawsuit is filed. Even when the Company wants to settle at the very beginning, it will expect to settle for less...

If this is the Company's Attitude about paying you... ...What Should your Attitude be like? It’s about protection for Freelancers being paid for their work in NYC. Our previous blog item explains the basic concepts of it. The actual law goes into effect on May 16,...

The most shameful case in recent history was Thomas Lowe, an Egan, MN attorney representing a divorce client, who had an affair with her that lasted seven months. After several arguments with the woman about the affair and his own marriage, Lowe said he was breaking things off. Two days later, he said he was withdrawing as her attorney. That day, the woman, who was vulnerable because of past abuse and mental health treatment, tried to kill herself. While hospitalized, she disclosed the affair.